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by magnat 8y ago
> Are you saying there are some unstated engineering limitations that would hinder getting to the desired "C" by connecting more battery cells in parallel? When connected in parallel, each cell has to discharge at same rate wit
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by magnat 8y ago
hacker news (if you can call HN a web app) 0.88
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by magnat 8y ago
> We also worked with MS to implement the shared source version of .Net, which probably nobody remembers. It was supposed to be an "open" reference implementation of .Net SSCLI, or Rotor, for those interested in archaeology. It
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by magnat 8y ago
Using DNN for generating higher resolution images[1] in realtime at fraction of the performance cost is quite brilliant. Is there any info it if this is nvidia proprietary technology or general feature of DirectX Raytracing that will eventu
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by magnat 8y ago
> That is a 34% improvement That graph is completely misleading then. I can understand why they don't want to show actual y-axis values, but at least put relative values on that axis. Even "60%" and "100%" would
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by magnat 8y ago
Is there a schema definition available for this API or you are supposed to figure it out by looking at actual replies and hope it doesn't change? Is there even an equvalent of XSD but for JSON?
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by magnat 8y ago
> Or the machine language expression of the most advanced expert systems, though by then the notch might be small enough that Planck’s constant got in the way. With Planck's length being roughly 10^-35m, I'd say you'd hit
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by magnat 8y ago
> So, we got hold of a USB GSM modem and used a prepaid phone SIM. This allowed us to receive unlimited messages for free. Keep in mind it is common (at least in EU) for mobile providers to forbid M2M and M2P traffic when using typical c
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by magnat 8y ago
A few missing items: - CIL to C++ using CoreRT/AoT compiler [1] - JVM to CIL using ikvmc [2] - Quite a few languages to WebAssembly using LLVM [3] - J# if you are willing to include dead but somewhat significant languages [1] https:&#
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by magnat 8y ago
> How's Linux for .NET hosting? For .NET Core there are binary packages [1] for Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat and SUSE, so you can apt-get/rpm/yum hosting environment in a matter of minutes. I'd say it's ea
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by magnat 8y ago
> our early experiments show an average memory savings of 7% from this and a few other memory improvements This seems little. I wonder if they knew it beforehand and decided it is worth the effort, or overestimated potential memory savin
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by magnat 8y ago
> no mention of usage of salts They wrote "MyHeritage does not store user passwords, but rather a one-way hash of each password, in which the hash key differs for each customer". I believe "different hash key for each cust
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by magnat 8y ago
You can also use RPi as FM stereo transmitter without additional hardware - https://github.com/Miegl/PiFmAdv
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by magnat 8y ago
Are you a nigerian prince?
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by magnat 8y ago
> Provides a very simple mechanism for a single host or interface, to be able to run 2^64 virtual machines, with their own global IPv6 address It's not uncommon to have multiple layers of virtualization (e.g. lxc/docker running
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by magnat 8y ago
> On the IO completing, the OS will suspend your thread, and execute your callback. On Windows, you have to put your thread to sleep to receive any callbacks [1]. If OS would suspend your thread at random point to execute a callback, tha
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by magnat 8y ago
There already is such service bundled in Windows and enabled by default - PreFetcher (in Windows XP) and SuperFetch (since Vista). It was a bit too aggressive in Vista and caused minutes of HDD churning after booting up.
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by magnat 9y ago
> webmasters should write a script that generates these public/private keys on every page hit Not on every page hit, but on every donation or every few days depending on how many transactions you've received. It doesn't ha
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by magnat 9y ago
> How do you delete data from backups written to persistent media? You encrypt each user's data with unique symmetric key and store the key in HSM or other external, rewritable media. When requested, you delete the key for a given u
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by magnat 9y ago
How would you query such structure to retrieve elements in-order?
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by magnat 9y ago
> Which pretty much means the only realistic use case is someone stole your laptop There is also case of "someone stole your backup", which is also quote realistic, especially when using third-party storage services.
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by magnat 9y ago
> No patches are available for ASP.NET Core 1.0.x or ASP.NET Core 1.1.x. Microsoft requires that you place your 1.x ASP.NET Core application behind a proxy (...) If you're not running ASP.NET Core 1.x behind a proxy, you must either
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by magnat 9y ago
It might be useful to show/hide certain parts of the form depending on a value selected in dropdown (SELECT) control. As for text input controls - perhaps to highlight the content when value matches expected (but not required) pattern.
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by magnat 9y ago
> Who even hands out one single /64 or smaller? Budget VPS/dedicated server providers, such as OVH: https://www.kimsufi.com/en/servers.xml
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by magnat 9y ago
Source code of the video: https://github.com/3b1b/manim/blob/master/active_projects/fo...
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by magnat 9y ago
It depends. If you import whole wallet.dat into altcoin wallet, you share both present and future (next 100 or so) private keys with the software. If you transfer your bitcoins to new address provided by existing bitcoin wallet, chances are
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by magnat 9y ago
Take care when claiming coins from those forks - even if only for transferring them to an exchange. Wallet software for those altcoins usually come as an unsigned, unverifiable binary and ask you to import your existing mainchain private ke
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by magnat 9y ago
A cross-CA transparency log for certificates.
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by magnat 9y ago
Are those firmware updates related to Spectre and Meltdown? I thought those bugs were unfixable via firmware/microcode updates and require either OS-level workaround or completely new silicon design.
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by magnat 9y ago
As of today: 2.1GB

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